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News
COP30: Forests drive agricultural success, not conflict, report shows
19/11/2025

FAO-led report says protecting and restoring forests is crucial to boosting climate-resilient agriculture, rural livelihoods and global food and water security.

The women replanting Argentina’s future
05/11/2025
Amid deforestation, women are planting new roots, taking the climate into their own hands.
What if cities were redesigned for people – and the planet?
What if cities were redesigned for people – and the planet?
31/10/2025

Increasingly, cities around the world are ready to expand green spaces, plan sustainable housing and transport, participate in the production of healthy food, use water resources better, and link all the above to their economies. FAO's Forestry Director Zhimin Wu explains in this op-ed for World Cities Day.

Publications

Transforming Namibia’s drylands: charcoal production as a solution to bush encroachment
Transforming Namibia’s drylands: charcoal production as a solution to bush encroachment
2025

The Impact Program works across three eco-regions within drylands, namely: the Miombo-Mopane landscapes of Southern Africa, the Savannas of East and West Africa, and the Great steppes of Central Asia.

Building resilience in Botswana’s drylands
Building resilience in Botswana’s drylands
2025

Scaling up millet, lablab and live fencing for restored livelihoods and landscapes

Restoring resilience through non-timber forest products and drought-tolerant crops in Zimbabwe
2025

Sustainable millet production to combat drought and achieve land degradation neutrality

Videos

Forest monitoring and Indigenous-led restoration in Brazil
17/11/2025

From satellite-based monitoring to community and indigenous-led restoration, Brazil’s approach is inspiring a global movement for forest protection...

The Green Cities Initiative – In my Green City
27/10/2025

In this video, eight people aged between 6 and 18 years share their experiences and ideas of what life in a sustainable, just and green city might look...

The Green Cities Initiative - a better future for all
15/10/2025

Cities around the world are grow rapidly. This growth offers immense opportunities but also creates rising pressure on infrastructure, resources and...

The Green Cities Initiative – in Action for Africa
15/10/2025

With support from Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the FAO’s Green Cities Initiative is helping ten cities in five...

The Green Cities Initiative - a virtual Green Cities walk
14/10/2025

Step into a reimagined urban world – a world in which cities are not just growing, but thriving.

‘Greening’ the humanitarian response in Uganda and Djibouti
20/06/2025

The Greening the Humanitarian Response project, funded by the European Union and implemented by FAO in collaboration with UNHCR, aims to strengthen...

Nepali women’s community group is turning fire prevention into a climate-resilient green enterprise
22/04/2025

Women from the Binayi Triveni Municipality in Nepal’s western region collect forest litter – the bark, leaves and sticks on the forest floor that can...

Transforming the asaí value chain in Bolivia through traditional methods and modern ingenuity
27/03/2025

In Porvenir, Bolivia, Indigenous communities are proving that forest conservation and prosperity can go hand in hand.

Schoolchildren learn about forests and food security in Rome’s FAO Park
21/03/2025

More than five billion people use forest and non-timber forest products for food, medicine and livelihoods. Watch the video and see how schoolchildren...

Rodrigo Pacheco's edible forest
21/03/2025

FAO National Goodwill Ambassador for Ecuador and world-famous chef Rodrigo Pacheco takes us on a walk through his own edible forests.

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Elearning Academy

Operationalising the forestry modules
Operationalising the forestry modules
03/02/2020

This course describes the key aspects relevant for operationalising the forestry modules in collecting data on the socioeconomic contributions of forests...

Collecting household welfare data through forestry modules
Collecting household welfare data through forestry modules
03/02/2020

This course describes the components and questions in the forestry modules that collect data on the socioeconomic contributions of forests to household...

Introduction to national socioeconomic surveys in forestry
Introduction to national socioeconomic surveys in forestry
01/02/2020

This course provides guidance on the use of forestry modules to collect data on the socioeconomic contributions of forests and non-forest environments...